TaRL Blog
Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) news and insights from around the world.
It’s hard to design good policies. This simple idea can help governments do it.
Read Meagan Neal’s post on Vox, about how to improve government policy, using the Zambian government’s implementation of Catch Up (Zambia’s TaRL programme) as an example.
“In 2014, the Zambian government knew its education system had a problem. The country had…”
Pratham: The Grameen Bank of Education in the Developing World
Read Nany Birdsall’s post about Pratham’s TaRL approach.
“I was in Delhi last week and saw Pratham—India’s largest non-governmental education organization—in action, thanks to its irrepressible CEO Rukmini Banerji, who arranged a tour of local Pratham sites for me…”
Recruiting Youth Volunteers in Africa: Lessons from Evidence Action
Read Evidence Action's blogpost reflecting on the TaRL Conference and sharing lessons on recruiting and retaining youth volunteers. "Last month, our team attended the inaugural Teaching at the Right Level conference in South Africa, hosted by pioneers in the field,...
Measuring Progress Is Key to Achieving Universal Education
"Getting to the heart of the learning crisis requires better data." Education represents a chance at a better life and better opportunities. But there is a large distinction between a basic education and a quality one. While a child might be going to school, in...
Hands-on and playful learning: this is Zambia’s education revolution
Read Sabina Vigani's reflection on the Zambia field visits. The field visits took place from 24-25 September 2018 in Zambia and Botswana and were part of the 2018 TaRL Conference. "For those of us working to improve quality of education, few things are more inspiring...
Meera’s Story: Why It’s Crucial to Find Solutions to the Global Learning Crisis
Read Dr. Rukmini Banerji’s post on Global Citizen, which highlights the need to build early foundations for a successful education. It tells the story of Meera, who took part in Pratham’s Read India programme in Rajasthan…
Bringing together an inspired and motivated community for our Teaching at the Right Level Conference
Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL), an education approach pioneered by education NGO Pratham, is designed to help ensure that all children learn the basics of reading and mathematics in primary school. The approach, developed and strengthened in India, is now…
Teaching at the Right Level Website Launch
J-PAL Africa and Pratham have launched a new Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) website in response to growing demand from governments, schools, and NGOs for details on TaRL methodology and implementation. In recent years, education stakeholders have become...
Applying the generalizability framework: Adopting Teaching at the Right Level in Zambia
Cross–posted from the J-PAL blog. How can governments learn from evidence generated from randomized evaluations? Over the last three years, J-PAL Africa has supported the Zambian Ministry of General Education to pilot and scale up…
From India to Zambia: A Learning Journey
Cross-posted from the J-PAL blog. How can policymakers integrate lessons from innovations proven to be effective in another context? Learning journeys can play a key role in understanding the implementation and context details which drove a program’s impact and might...
Adapting a new educational approach to francophone West Africa
Cross posted from the J-PAL blog. In francophone West Africa, despite progress made in primary school enrollment rates, students’ learning levels remain low throughout primary school. For example, in Côte d’Ivoire, more than half of students did not reach a...
Teaching at the Right Level: Inside the classroom
Cross-posted from the J-PAL blog. The application of the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) approach in Zambia, through the Ministry of General Education’s Catch Up program, provides an opportunity to capture key aspects of TaRL in an African context. TaRL...
Zambia to scale Teaching at the Right Level programme to 1,800 schools
Cross-posted from the J-PAL blog. Building on over a decade of rigorous research around the world and two years of iterative learning in Zambia, the Ministry of General Education will scale up a program called Catch Up to approximately 1,800 schools in Zambia over the...
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